re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 9:58 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ian (151 messages posted) I think this is a virus that sends itself over and over again but my AVG antivirus doesn't seem to pick it up.I am using Mailwasher to get rid of them but its so time consuming. On Friday, September 30, 2005 at 5:32 pm, gewg_ wrote: >|I am getting about 50 different "Mail Delivery Failure" emails every day. >| Ian > >If you make your email address >style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);">easy to guess, it >will be easy to spam >or to use as a spoof address. >Any combination of common names will be susceptible to a " >href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define:dictionary+attack"> >style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">dictionary attack" >as will something like John23. > > >If your >email provider does not run >style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">SpamAssassin, >get a >new mail provider that does. > >You shouldn't even be aware of 99.9% of this junk. > > >The problem is that your >email address has gotten out into the wild. >Set up a new email account and >style="background-color: rgb(150, 204, 204);">abandon the old one. > >Then: >1) Never publish >style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 102);">your >primary email address on the Internet. >2) Before you give your >primary email address to someone, >have that someone explain >style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" >href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22BCC+blind-carbon-copy+CC+carbon-copy+inurl:russharvey">the >difference between CC and BCC. >3) Never give your >primary email address >to someone whom you would not trust with your wallet. > >Set up throw-away >email accounts for contact with everyone else. >http://www.spamgourmet.com/ >http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.htm > Written in response to: re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (gewg_: Friday, September 30, 2005 at 5:32 pm) Responses to this message: re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (MartinM: Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 10:16 am) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (gewg_: Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 10:52 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (Ian: Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 3:57 pm) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (gewg_: Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 5:32 pm) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (Ian: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 9:58 am) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (MartinM: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 10:16 am) re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails? (gewg_: Sat, Oct 1, 2005, 10:52 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum